Master en Relations Internationales et Diplomatie

(MIR-D)

POL 621 – Global Environmental Politics This course explores the intersection of environmental issues, global politics, and international relations. The course focuses on how environmental issues are addressed, negotiated, and governed by nation-states, international organizations, NGOs, and other stakeholders. Through the analysis of case studies, including climate change, ozone, oceans, biodiversity, forests or transboundary watercourses, students will examine the various approaches to global environmental governance, including multilateral environmental agreements, market-based instruments, and civil society engagement. At the end of the course, student will be able to articulate the interaction of environmental policy with other international regimes, such as the trade and investment regimes. They will be equipped with the knowledge to develop appropriate strategies and solutions to address global environmental challenges.

POL 630 – Foreign Policy and Diplomacy: Theory and Practice How do decision makers influence international affairs? Who decides in foreign policy making? What are domestic and international constraints for governments, policy makers and diplomats? This course looks at foreign policy and diplomacy through the lens of grand strategy and statecraft. The course focuses on core concepts and tools to analyze foreign policy and international issues from the decision makers’ perspective. It examines how to assess past events, examine day-to-day political affairs and forecast their possible future developments. International crisis and issues are analyzed as an opportunity for problem-solving by using bilateral and multilateral diplomacy. The course reveals political decisions as strategic response to complex and fast-evolving day-to-day events. Students will learn how to define an issue, evaluate risk, prioritize options and take action.

POL 640 – Democracy and Globalization The module offers a broad conceptual and interdisciplinary understanding of democracy and globalization and how they have evolved throughout both the long and the more recent history. Each of these phenomena is studied in terms of their historical roots, the principles on which they rely and their broader consequence – both positive and negative. An analysis is made of the complex interaction between globalization, the current patterns of capitalism and democracy, and the impacts of geopolitics on these processes. Developments that characterize the contemporary world are critically analyzed and assessed: democratic decay, populism, illiberal democracy, neo-nationalism, neoliberalism, financial capitalism, the relevance of nation-state, inequality. Students will acquire conceptual tools to understand deep causes and movers of several major trends and ongoing international and domestic political and economic debates. Students will apply these conceptual tools to grasp different national realities through case studies.

POL 665 – Human Rights: Law and Politics In this course students will get familiar with the philosophical foundations, the history and evolution of Human Rights as well as the international and regional institutions where Human Rights are discussed and their practical implementation monitored. Students will study more in depth some specific legal cases in order to better understand the key issues at stake but also the actors and mechanisms involved in order to critically assess the positive contributions and difficulties of the human rights regime. Students will study the controversies over human rights and the role played by human rights discourse in international relations. In the end, students will be equipped with the tools to navigate the international law and politics of human rights.

RES 700 B – Research planning and preparation This module is designed to help students to plan and prepare their research projects(Capstone) by developing a clear, concise research proposal with problem statement, key research questions, research methodology, literature review, proposed outcomes. The research proposal forms the ‘gateway’ to the research (Capstone project) itself and the aim is to ensure that students are well planned to implement their Capstone projects.

RES 700 C – Research Thesis / Capstone All graduate students at the IIG are entitled to complete a research thesis. Master’s thesis provides an opportunity for students to engage in high-level research focusing on an area of specialization within their program. In their thesis students apply the knowledge they have acquired in the Research Module (Introduction to Research Methodology RES 100A) while exploring the topic of their choice.